A number of senior United States officials are set to visit China starting this month ahead of the scheduled visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to the United States in September.

According to a report published by the official Xinhua news agency, the visit of the senior US officials to China is part on the consensus reached by China and the United States.

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The agreement was for China and the US to send senior officials as part of President Xi's state visit to the US next month.

Some senior officials of China will also visit the US in August and September to check on the preparations made by the White House for the Chinese president's upcoming visit.

President Xi will make a state visit to the United States based on the invitation of US President Barack Obama.

The relations between the two countries have been described by analysts to be in a good momentum at present, especially that China approved the newly reached nuclear agreement with Iran.

Xi was quoted by Xinhua as saying that US and China officials have been keeping in close contact with with other.

In fact, Obama reportedly called up Xi and discussed the Chinese president's upcoming US visit as well as the Iran nuclear deal in a telephone conversation.

China and the US have been clashing on various issues, including the issues on cyber espionage and territorial disputes. The US has accused China of backing hackers to get into the system of several American corporations.

China also claimed that the US has strengthened its military capacity in Asia even as the Chinese government has urged the international community from meddling in the ongoing territorial disputes.

However, analysts said Obama and Xi have been civil, with the US president even announcing that the American people are eagerly awaiting for the arrival of Xi in September.

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